Summary: Pastor John preaches on the benefits of meditating on God and the truth found in scripture

There is a story from about 100 years ago of a city boy spending the summer with his grandparents on their farm. Being from the city, he wasn’t used to having to do chores all day like you have to on a farm. One of the chores he didn’t like was getting a large bucket of water from the well for his grandmother to use throughout the day. HE hated doing it-It was heavy, and the well was far away from the house, and it was the first thing he had to do everyday.

Sunday’s was church day at his grandparents, and as they walked back home his grandparents were discussing the sermon- about why reading and studying the bible were important to the Christian. In his life in the city, the boy didn’t go to church but twice a year so he asked why this idea of studying “That old book” was so important.

His grandfather replied, “I’ll show you when we get home.”

When they got home, grandpa asked the boy to fetch some water from the well, but this time use the coal bucket. The boy said, “But the coal bucket is filthy, we don’t want to drink water from that.

“Now you mind me boy and just do as you’re told was the grandfather’s response.”

The boy picked up the coal bucket from it’s hook next to the stove and walked out to the well. He pumped, and he pumped, and he pumped that well handle, fill the bucket, and start walking back to the house by the water kept running out the many cracks and holes in it. Finally, after 15 frustrating minutes of trying to fill the bucket, he went back to the house and told his grandfather this isn’t going to work.

His grandfather said, look at the inside of the bucket. The boy looked and he saw all that coal dust had gotten washed away from inside it, and it was pretty clean.

His grandfather said, “That is why we read and think about and study the word of God over and over again. The Word of God is like that water, and we need the water of God to flow through us because we leak even worse than that bucket, so we need to keep the water flowing so we can be clean on the inside, because what is inside us will always find a way out- for good or for bad.”

That’s a pretty wise grandpa.

Today we are going to talk about mediating on God’s Word. We are going to start in Psalm 1, but look at several different scriptures to really see what the bible has to say about this idea of meditation from a biblical perspective.